Note: "Bristol's Shakespeare" - is quoted from: ‘The Artist as Original Genius: Shakespeare’s Fine Frenzy in Late 18th Century British Art’ by William L Pressly Professor Emeritus Institute of Fine Arts of New York University USA 2007.

9th February 2020 with later additions

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Thomas Chatterton

1752 - 1770

Chatterton's House

built 1749

PRESS RELEASE

17th October 2014

Bristol City Council places Chatterton’s House, built in 1749, to Leasehold Tender

as Cafe / Restaurant:

“Bristol has an extraordinarily rich literary history, and Thomas Chatterton is at its centre. He was locally celebrated in his day, and after his death inspired one of the major literary debates of the eighteenth century. He was a significant influence on later writers from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Dante Gabriel Rossetti, from Oscar Wilde to contemporary novelists such as Peter Ackroyd. There is no grave to commemorate Thomas Chatterton, but we do have the house in which he was born. It should be a fitting memorial to a celebrated poet.”

Prof. Nick Groom, Co-Founder in 2002 ‘The Thomas Chatterton Society’

“Bristol City Council has done an excellent job in the preservation and renovation of Chatterton’s House and we look forward with excitement to the successful long-term use of the birthplace of “Bristol’s Shakespeare”.”